How to deploy Shiny Server with AWS

Deploy your own Shiny app, written in R, using AWS so all on the web can see!

[@nowgambit]

I followed this video and I was able to start up an EC2 instance, install R & R Server, and host a tiny application. This was pretty big for me because I have no background on this type of thing, and I'm really thankful for your elaborate video, and your patience to make this. A tiny thing that confused me a little was how to get back to the Terminal from the EMACS config file, so here is the instruction for that in case anyone else struggles with it. To get back from the Emacs config file to the shell editor press control key and press 'X' and then again with the control key pressed , hit 'c'. Thank you so much Tim!

[@Timmy4]

Manshu Verma thanks! That's right. I tried to make the video as easy to follow along with as possible, but I guess I missed the part on closing emacs. Thanks for filling in the gap!

[@SirViette]

This is such a useful video. It needs to get more views. Thanks for putting it together!

[@brunopilarczyk2194]

Many thanks for this, it is truly a good asset for any data scientist

[@jordanfrey9109]

Great demo, one of the best out there. Thanks! Keep the videos coming.

[@deepakganapathi4917]

This is really helpful ! Thanks, Tim. Looking forward for the next set of videos you have promised

[@Timmy4]

Deepak Ganapathi thanks! I'll try to do it this week!

[@kingdeification]

Great job Tim!

[@davidodongo4382]

here in 2020...beautiful stuff!...the explanations were really clear....would you mind doing one for shinyproxy?

[@joseluisbeltramone599]

Thank you very much, Tim. Excellent summary!

[@zhiguanghuo845]

Very helpful! Thank you for sharing this!

[@edwintorresmoya5272]

Thanks a lot. I made this with google cloud and the instructions were useful!

[@HarshaT]

Awesome. very Informative. Thanks for showing.

[@happylearning-gp]

Excellent, Excellent. I am not an IT person, but I am able to follow clearly you tutorial. Thank you very much. As per my understanding is that if I applications to launch, I have to create 5 folders like shiny_example, and change it suitably for each in URL link. am I right

[@roneyfraga]

Thanks for spending your time to help me.

[@RonnieGuymon]

This is so helpful. You're the man!

[@tinkuborah780]

Very Nice Video @Tim... I am wondering if you followed up with another video that shows adding ssl certificate and routing the traffic via HTTPS

[@cesararribas2220]

Thank's a lot Tim. Really useful!

[@rongbinye3984]

This is helpful! Thank You Tim!

[@shvang8]

While following these steps I am getting below error sudo yum install r-base Loaded plugins: extras_suggestions, langpacks, priorities, update-motd 111 packages excluded due to repository priority protections No package r-base available. Error: Nothing to do

[@gulince2969]

Thank you, Tim.

[@mohitpande2006]

Hi Abraham, thank for the tutorial, Actually I have tried using different method including puttygen but at last I am not able to insert app.R in srv/shiny-server folder as it is giving errror as could not create work tree dir 'shiny': Permission denied, althought i have given all the permission what cloud be the reason

[@fedegroxo]

I managed to follow everything without getting any errors but when I try to access the app via the browser it doesn't load. Any ideas regarding what might be causing this?

[@rafaelekk]

How many shiny instances can be opened at the same time? For example, can 4 persons use the app at the same time?

[@Timmy4]

Rafael Batista, should be able to handle as many as you need, provided you aren't serving it to thousands or more at the same time. There are solutions for that, but I've never needed that scale myself

[@thecinemacloud]

Hello Tim, I ask one question, if I successfully deploy app in shiny server, then i need to share that app to my friend , so i can share only app link or my friend need to have server then he can open the app

[@caiocesardantas6221]

thx man, works fine here!

[@lglforfun]

Great video. Could you do a video on how to enable https connection? Thanks.

[@bcarine8908]

Hey, thank you for the video. I have data stored on an publicly available Amazon S3 and would like to somehow like that data to and R code and be able to have it be visualized on Shiny. Would anyone point me to some step by step guidance.

[@chcrain1280]

What’s SSH? And how do I download it?

[@hongquan9x]

Tim: I have a problem when connect private key with a public key. After the command $ ssh -i "my_key.pem" ubuntu@Amazon_ID ; It shows an error : Pseudo-terminal will not be allocated because stdin is not a terminal. Could you please advise me how to solve this issue? THanks

[@Timmy4]

It sounds like you're not using a terminal. Can you give details about what program you're using for the ssh command, including operating system, etc.?

[@haimkichik]

[@shacharettner3508]

Sorry for the very basic question.. If i do all of this on my private computer does it mean that it will function as the web server? or is that not an option?

[@Timmy4]

Yes, it will function as a web server if you follow along.

[@shacharettner3508]

@@Timmy4 Thank you!

[@ajaxwammes]

Hi Tim, I am copying the Shiny files I need (2 csv and 1 R) to /srv/shiny-server. However, it copies it into the right directory but as a map, not separate files. I believe that's why it is still not working. Do you have a solution for this?

[@Timmy4]

Hi! Sorry to hear you're having trouble. What do you mean by a map?

[@ajaxwammes]

​@@Timmy4 Hi Tim, thanks for getting back, really appreciate it! I might have been a little bit vague, apologies. So I actually can run the very simple standard Rshiny app (Old Faithful Geyser Data) using the instructions in your video. However, when I try to run my own app which is an interactive worldmap it does not work. In this case I copy the folder (I said map in my last comment, but meant folder) which includes my R file and 2 .csv files in /srv/shiny-server, and get the following error: "the application has failed to start". I already tried to install all the packages I need for the app.R on the server, but also this does not seem to work. Any advice would be very welcome!!

[@gulince2969]

@@ajaxwammes Could you find a solution for this ? I have same problem.